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re: So John Young was on the radio going off on Entergy
Posted on 8/31/12 at 11:48 pm to notiger1997
Posted on 8/31/12 at 11:48 pm to notiger1997
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He was told that Entergy decided a long time ago to decrease their maintenance staff and just rely on insurance and rate adjustments to help them make up for any losses.
This is a complete and outright lie. Are you making this shite up as you go along? If that someone told you this, he is full of shite. Entergy has standards they have to maintain for installation, infrastructure, etc. Some are mandated by the PRC. As a matter of fact, if the PRC deems Entergy did not spend enough money on infrastructure and other improvemnts, they have to give their customers a credit.
The fact of the matter is that roughly 36 hrs after the storm moved out, Entergy has roughly half of the customers that lost power back on the grid. Thats pretty damn good. The JP Parish president is an idiot. Instead of asking what resources the crews need to get to work, he's whining on the radio.
A couple of notes:
- Entergy does not stage restoration assets in the path of the storm. How pissed would you be if half of their bucket trucks were sitting in a flooded parking lot now?
- Up until yesterday morning, the parish was pretty much cut off from major roadways. Interstate 10 and 55 are both closed. Hwy 90 and Airline just opened back up from the east yesterday afternoon. I'm sure that contributed to the slow start.
- Jeff Parish has a lot of infrastructure damage/ Trees down/ poles down. Those take more time to fix than flipping a fuse.
- FACT: Entergy will regularly trim as many trees as they are allowed to do so by the property owners. You want to bitch at someone for having lines wrapped up in trees? Bitch at the property owner who tells them not to cut their trees. Thats why you see Asplund trucks trimming trees all over the place after storms: they try to cut back as much as they can while they are able to for outages and noone is telling them not to.
The fact of the matter is that most of you have no clue how a complex power distribution grid is maintained and operated, nor do you know anything about electricity other than the basics you learned in high school physics. Most of you should stick to your expert weather predictions, since this board was filled with people on Sunday saying that Issac would be no big deal and laughing at all of us who were choosing to make preparations.
This post was edited on 8/31/12 at 11:50 pm
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Posted on 8/31/12 at 11:52 pm to elprez00
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The JP Parish president is an idiot. Instead of asking what resources the crews need to get to work, he's whining on the radio.
He's another no name politician trying to make a name. Nothing to see here. Dude's an idiot.
Posted on 9/1/12 at 12:31 am to elprez00
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FACT: Entergy will regularly trim as many trees as they are allowed to do so by the property owners. You want to bitch at someone for having lines wrapped up in trees? Bitch at the property owner who tells them not to cut their trees. Thats why you see Asplund trucks trimming trees all over the place after storms: they try to cut back as much as they can while they are able to for outages and noone is telling them not to.
While i haven't bitched and I am practicing patience for the most part, I either got the run around from Entergy or this statement is incorrect. Our power goes out if somebody farts hard enough. The same guy kept coming out and even he was joking that it was a weekly occurrence. In fact, counting when I lost power for the Hurricane, I lost power 4 times in 5 days (I'm still down) leading up to my current outage. Our power has been going out so much we called up Entergy with our neighbors and told them they need to come cut the trees along the lines and probably replace the transformer. When they got out there they told us it would be $500-$700 a customer to trim trees because they were our trees. (In fact they are not our trees and are on the other side of the property line) We were literally begging them to clean the lines and they basically told us we were SOL. I would gladly have them come napalm the woods behind the property if this wouldn't happen anymore.
ETA: I understand there is complexity I have no inkling of, but the reason I am without power so often is strictly because of Entergy's unwillingness to do what is necessary in my tiny corner of the world.
This post was edited on 9/1/12 at 12:34 am
Posted on 9/1/12 at 8:12 am to elprez00
This is a good post with one exception. Entergy has right of way and while they regularly get bitched at by homeowners about butchering their beloved trees they still cut them away. The homeowner has no choice in the matter. And I also disagree with the post about charging. I've had many trees trimmed on various pieces of property and some at my request and never have they told me there was a fee. That person needs to call a supervisor with Entergy and explain that discussion.
And by that I mean I've had lines at the roads as well as individual service to my building trimmed.
And by that I mean I've had lines at the roads as well as individual service to my building trimmed.
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